I’ll miss you garbage can
Gah, how could anyone steal a 90 gallon rolling garbage can?
Besides the fact that they are huge and cumbersome to manuever and there was stinky stuff at the bottom of the container, someone stole ours sometime yesterday.
I gave it to my husband as a Christmas present a few years ago, you BASTARDS! I want my husbands pressy back.
Should I blame Gay Marriages or a Right Wing-Left Wing conspiracy?
I’m just bummed.
I’m intruiged – it never would have occurred to me to give a trash can as a gift (not a criticism, believe me. I have given shovels and one very elaborate pooper-scooper to my husband at Christmas-time). Just out of curiosity, how did you wrap it?
As for blame, we all know who runs the sanitation business. Don’t you watch The Sopranos? Your garbage can must have seen something it shouldn’t have seen. Now, if you wake up one morning with your mangled garbage can in bed next you, you really have to worry.
How tragic! It looks just like mine except mine’s brown. You gave your husband a garbage can as a Christmas present? Did he give you a new ironing board cover the same year?
I can’t remember what he gave me that year for christmas,but I am pretty sure it was the year I received a rototiller as an anniversary present.
We are a lot of starry eyed romantics over here as Casa Ujest, no?
One does not wrap a 90 gallon can unless we deforested an entire national park. I just hauled it out of the van and said, " Here’s your Christmas Present."
Hey, he didn’t wrap the rototiller.But he did wrap the hockey stick that he gave to me in the early years of Young & Stupid Love.
Our ironing board is the least used thingie in the house. If the cover actually died on it and had to be replaced, I still have the warranty paperwork on it.
( Just don’t ask me where the paperwork is for School Picture Day Forms for the kids. That stuff migrated somewhere else in the house the moment I found them. )
We gave my dad a garbage can for Christmas once. We didn’t wrap it (thought it did have a bow) and we had filled it (well, put things inside - it was a big can) with his other Christmas presents. He’s hard to shop for, and it was something he said he (we) needed because the existing garbage cans just weren’t up to snuff, apparently.
I worry about people stealing my recycling bin. Then I remember that it’s provided for free from the city, so it’s not a big deal/cost to me! I can just go down the street and pick up another one!
I’m sorry for your loss.
I am not sure if I should call our local sherrif ( and wait and wait for his arrival) to make a report before making a demand for the K-9 unit to come out and track down our can and maybe an air tractical strike team, or just go off to Lowe’s/Home Depot and buy a new one.
I mean, I already bought his Xmas present already for this year. 5 rolls of duct tape. At a garage sale for $1 each. Who doesn’t love and need duct tape? (and he has already received said wunderbar present.)
Maybe you should consider spray painting your street address on its replacement. For a neater look, you could use stencils…
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Hee! One of us should swap swampy’s trash can out with this one, and watch the fun!
Ooooh, I never thought that maybe a bear took my can. Since bears haven’t been a part of our area is about 75 years, it all makes perfect sense!
Colbert was right!
Yeah, this was one of those things I shoulda done. My bad.
Hey! Should I be overcome with a desire to eat out of yer trash can, ain’t nuttin’ gonna stop me. 
Well, if there were maggots in it that would stop me cause maggots are just ick!
Shirley y’all are the most romantic couple I’ve ever heard of! Since Mr. Ujest is gettin’ duct tape this year, maybe this is the year you’ll finally get that toilet paper holder you’ve had your eyes on. Dare to dream! 
I have started my Christmas list already (I always forget what I want by the time December rolls around) and one of the items on it is an outdoor garbage can.
A girl has to have dreams, ya know?
Weird, I had the exact opposite problem. One day I came home to find a very nice 50 gallon barrel in my front yard. Rubbermaid, I think. Sturdy and with large, easily gripped handles. So I think ‘thats strange’ and move the thing to the middle of the sidewalk in the middle of my yard for all the neighboors to see. After six days, I decided that the ‘finder keepers, loosers weepers’ rule then applied and I claimed it for my own. It has been a nice addition to my rubbish paraphernalia ever since.
I am truly sorry to hear of your loss. Don’t feel too bad about not painting your address on it, who really expects to have their garbage can stolen?
Perhaps it’s not really stolen, and soon you’ll start getting postcards, and photos of the garbage can at the beach, enjoying football games, hitting the slopes…
Sorry about your can. Stencilling your address on the next one really is a good idea.
Or stencil something stupid on it so no one will want it.
My next door neighbours have a swastika on their bin.
You sure they’re not just Nazis?
Could be. Either way, I’m not taking their bin.
Side note: the prices of cans de garbage at HD are fairly steep (though I’m not sure where else you’d find a 90-gallon job). Target can sell you garbage cans around the 50 gallon range for about $20 each. A 90-gallon job was over $100 at the HD near me last time I looked.